Show I 1 for the Deseret News SOCIAL HALL on new years day after the serenading sere vi visits to the presidency lc as referred to in a communication in our last at one p M U the doors of the social hall were opened to company for the first time and a select party with the corps Drama tique began to assemble at I 1 3 the company was called to order by president kimball when mr D unbar dunbar sang the song im 11 a saint pm im a saint ac the dedication prayer was then offered by elder amasa I 1 lyman followed I 1 by vie the song bong speak no 11 by mr dunbar mr james ferguson was called on for sentiment t and gave the following ADDRESS thus opens the first hall constructed for the practice of the drama among the saints of the last days and thus is the drama itself introduced I 1 r to you whom much bitter experience has taught to turn to the best account every blessing I 1 I 1 ing you receive and to draw from every toun fountain tain to the draught draun draught ht alone which nourishes any coin comments aion upon this subject would be in addressing you therefore in behalf of the deseret dramatic association I 1 I 1 take the privilege to represent you at the same time T there here is nothing good but comes from god by inspiration of god originated every invent invention foll by the subtlety of the devil came every counterfeit whatever tends to and make glad is of divine origin origin 0 whatever tends to extreme mirth and frivolity eriv clity is a counterfeit and comes from an evil influence whatever is instructive instruct IV i e and refining is of divine inspiration whatever misinforms and depraves is a counterfeit the drama as it originated was right as it has now become it is a counterfeit and is wrong IV when ilen sin first crept in among the human fam ily it brought with it an attendant train of vices which gradually blunted the senses sense of their participators participatory and drowned their memory I 1 until the simple tale of past events was forgotten and the story of an heroic fathers deeds became a dead ulu unmeaning meaning echo then originated in the f form orm of a divine antidote that mode of embodying in one short hour the events of a lite time and illustrating events of importance in a manner that would attract the sinking energies and dying recollections of those whom such h events ts should should concern and thus as it pleased the g great r eat author himself was the Drama introduced as an illustrated story of the past i or a prophetic vision of the future it was a school in which each succeed succeeding ine aze age was taught the history of its predecessor ahw the young were taught to emulate the brave deeds of their good ancestors the follies of the old men were recalled to them as a lesson and all were t shown the insubstantial lity of unworthy aspirations it was a simple unostentatious institution but now now what has become of it 12 ask t the world can they tell you no al alas E they s can but bat show you the effects of its counterfeit they can but point you to the harlots of a congregation t gre Z gation of divided kingdoms they can but direct you to the accumulating darkness in in i which they are involved they can only answer that the lamp of the past is extinguished and they have no torch with which to light it what then do WE want here have we come to introduce I 1 among this deop people e this counterfeit of a I 1 lost coin the mock shadow of a departed rea lity no 1 have we come to enrobe a simple I 1 t story ok of a past event in an impenetrable garb of fiction no have we come to make you believe that I 1 love lov e like death levels all ranks rank s and thereby ask aak you yoa by an unholy alliance t to 0 lay your crowns beside the slouches ot of an at tainted tribe 2 no encircled by the western lips alps the world is as another planet to us the I 1 ir we breath is swi seasoned with ith the parity of 1 i i 1 leaven and only smacks cf other times gone I 1 iff when the unpleasant incense of a pipe or baking tea pot is offered as an oblation to a erupted r rup e appetite T be it ours then to shew what there thare is where K e have come from to draw from the back I 1 aund and expose the vices of the he age to exi I 1 tact act from books what of good is found in them 1 I 1 fo 0 brighten the recollections of the generation S I 1 ipa w arising on the most important events of y r impo important history to recall to them the i iceney je nes of missouri and ellinois to remind thema ahem t the he h houses I 1 auses of boggs and ford as aa well as of of rk and lancaster and that no article in i I 1 i 11 avens constitution 0 prevents the passing of bill of attainder to shew how law first de 1 ned to rectify all wrongs has been subverted t i d now ornamented with a smooth toned plea ludes all justice to shew how man dei le rating age by age has snatched fram god 1 1 right whose right alone it is to make and ap i make ake kings kingg for how can man I 1 nr r effectually the kingly oil upon the head of I 1 i ther other KB cannot make a king who is not a 01 ng g himself and thus by chewing the errors f eblet a remedy full fall and efficacious may be aided vided I 1 we ee ewie P e net then to introduce the borrut corrupt i ter of the world but to resurrect the 0 old I 1 d lubis drama we e ibi ask again what is the object of the amsA ama and od what of concerts 2 t heir choir object is a musingly amusingly to instruct IR nt 1 j i abl abeto rao draw all our ar attention and talent I 1 I 1 s t theyone the e a primary ri ar 9 object ec wi with us no ey y be looked upon as pastimes in J y wis wise provisions of their author it was in ded ed that no 0 time should be misspent misspend mis spent hence I 1 in the ni more ore grave avocations are filled and ei enter upon our 0 pastimes wo we are instructed ie e ewe we are amused et t i us treat the matter then 1 as something aich we condescend like the student to his ledore edore and not as a lofty object to be grasi after W we e have to be careful too lest in f 1 ering too unwarily with the true coin it 8 from us and we e palm upon ourselves the 01 c kerfeit ter feit nor can we mix them truth and 3 4 E r have forever quarrelled quaTrell quarrel led ed israel should 11 1111 alone with israel let it be our object to 9 d zealously our aur doors and open them only to F uth ruth auci and virtue insubordination and 0 di on alone can injure us for have we not 0 u chieftain hief tain at our head in this as in all other in pra re hose council I 1 wag wa s never nevar yet known to I 1 tray with biln then to direct and go 1 v 7 we may aay open out a afield add of amusement and I 1 clon both alboth boundless aud and eternal it the ther close of the address six cotillions cot illions were feied which h were succeeded by an equal numb r s until 6 oc look when the company coatis t tir of near four hundred were seated and mr rv abar sang sang 0 the scotch song alister mcalis tv in costume lr ir kay and family sang aang a pathetic piece bowed wed by his hia two daughters playing pi ay ing an air on tt t guitar and by a song frn fin mrs wheelock elook entitled the mornion mormon creed breed I 1 to ir dunbar then sang such i a genius I 1 did I 1 awl in costume which was so amusing that he v loudly encored amed answered the call by singing it after a variety of singing and 0 rotations tationa i 11 the athe african band dressed for the oc cassion a series of negro melodies bout half past 8 an adjournment of half an pir for refreshments was succeeded by da no t i I 1 until half past 10 when sin singing following I 1 aas was again 11 fumed med for half an a hour the following 0 songs aig promiscuously sung the old oak tree the umbrella 0 courtship ourt ship abe ai athe oasey casey famil family fl by mr dunbar I 1 11 3 1 I 1 I 1 the sea teddy the tyler hole in the stocking by mr kay mr AN whitney hitney recited the piece my hat and the song sticking out a feet the two j ewis libro t hers by mr barer barber dane dancing angas ingas was resumed ed until half past 11 when mr dunbar suna sung Z the merry cormons mormons mor morn mons ions chorused by the company benediction by elder Jede jedediah diali M grant I 1 |